Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!